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CNN founder Ted Turner dies aged 87

Legacy media pioneer Ted Turner, who transformed global television news by launching the world’s first 24-hour news network, has died aged 87.

Turner founded CNN in 1980 despite widespread scepticism, with the channel later becoming a dominant force through live coverage of major world events including the Gulf War and the Challenger disaster.

Known for his outspoken personality and ambitious business style, Turner built a vast media empire that included TBS, TNT and Cartoon Network, while also owning major sports franchises and winning the America’s Cup in 1977.

Tributes poured in from across politics and media, with US President Donald Trump calling him one of broadcasting’s greats. Turner also became a major philanthropist, donating billions to international and environmental causes after stepping back from the media industry.

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  1. Media mogul and CNN founder Ted Turner has often been linked to the Georgia Guidestones. Due to his outspoken nature, his status as a Georgia resident, and his environmental activism, proponents often cite Turner as a prime suspect behind the creation of the monument. Known as an “American Stonehenge”, the Georgia Guidestones were mysteriously commissioned in June 1979 by a man under the pseudonym R. C. Christian and “a small group of loyal Americans”. The Guidestones featured ten guidelines, with the first being a directive to keep the world population under 500 million. Turner has publicly expressed views on population control and reduction, stating the earth would be better served by a smaller population, which aligns with the message on the stones.

    • Which begs the question – are they running out of organ donors? Did Covid have the unexpected side effect of diminishing the supply? Or tainting the blood? Nevertheless some of them have done quite well – Soros is 95 and Schwab is 88.

  2. For some reason I thought he was Tina Turner’s husband. Well, anyway, he should have led from the front with his smaller population beliefs and not had five children. Next we’ll be hearing Boris Johnson talking about reducing family size. Or Elon Musk.

  3. WTBS ‘Super Station’ (W-Turner Broadcasting Station) was definitely anchored in Georgia’s Southern Culture.
    The station was viewed on most of the Souther States, later expanding nationally and globally with CNN (aka Clinton News Network and / or ‘Communist News Network’..).
    Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter built homesfor ‘Habitat for Humanity’…I wonder if Ted ‘Captain Outrageous’ Turner donated to the same?
    BTW, he was married to Jane Fonda, who visited the Hanoi Hilton in an attempt to shame the Americans imprisoned there by the Communist North Vietnamese and were tortured on a routine basis…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rufnWLVQcKg

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